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Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:59 am Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
I know that the curvature of the Earth isn't important for 1 second intervals, but I'd like certain parts of the program to work for data sets which might have large distances between points. As for t ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:41 pm Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
Unfortunately the devices don't appear to be made for people who want to log all possible information, every second and for 10 hours a day. I think I'll be transferring the data to a laptop at the end ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:27 pm Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
Thanks for the update Nick, I was rather surprised to see activity in this thread, I was just looking over it again before I was going to buy the Q1000.. I might have to see if I can track down the Q1 ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:53 am Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
Thanks for the info robertn. I have heard that GPS altitude should never be trusted, but I was hoping that the change in altitude (which is what would be more important to me) is more accurate. Do you ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:17 pm Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
Well, I would have done it differently, I really can't stand inefficiency. As for simplicity, it's really not much harder to read numbers binary data than text data. But I suppose when you program in ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:54 am Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
So the 092143.000 was the time. I was a little thrown out by the .000 since it seems odd that they'd have an accuracy in milliseconds if it can only log once every 5 seconds at best. Although the form ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:13 pm Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
The file format looks incredibly easy to read. The only thing is, although the datestamp is clear, I can't see the timestamp there. I'm quite confident I'll be able to get the timestamp out after I ta ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:28 am Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
I was actually surprised to hear that the file format was text. I was expecting to have binary data where I'd have to find out what byte order it's in and some massive manual decoding of their protoco ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:58 pm Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
USB is more convenient for me than an SD card because I use my desktop, which doesn't have a card reader, much more often than I use a laptop. I have heard that altitude readings aren't very accurate, ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:49 am Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
Thanks for the reply Prodnose. I did a bit of searching for a device that might have a 1 second log interval and found this site http://www.semsons.com/rorbgpsdalos.html It seemed to be everything I w ... |
Topic: Looking to get a datalogger |
mfrebuilt
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:42 pm Subject: Looking to get a datalogger |
Hi, I found these forums while looking for information about GPS dataloggers. I'm seeking some help in finding an affordable datalogger that will meet my slightly unusual requirements. I'm an enthusia ... |
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